Method for the Selection of an Active Software Environment of a Virtualized Telecommunications Terminal

1. A method comprising: receiving, at a device, an invitation to participate in a communication session; selecting one of a first instance of operating system software and a second instance of operating system software, based on a characteristic detected by the device of the invitation, to yield a selected instance of operating system software; and loading, via a virtualization layer and in response to the invitation, the selected instance of operating system software as an active software environment for the device to participate in the communication session.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic comprises an identity of a sender of the invitation.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic comprises a medium of the communications session.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic comprises a geographic location of a source of the invitation.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic comprises a time at which the invitation is received.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic comprises a day of a week on which the invitation is received.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic comprises whether a sender of the invitation is identified in a contacts list stored in memory used by the first instance of operating system software.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic comprises an identity of an intended recipient of the invitation.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first instance of operating system software and the second instance of operating system software are of different operating systems.

10. A system comprising: a processor; and a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: receiving an invitation to participate in a communications session; selecting one of a first instance of operating system software and a second instance of operating system software, based on a characteristic detected by a device of the invitation, to yield a selected instance of operating system software; and loading, via a virtualization layer and in response to the invitation, the selected instance of operating system software as an active software environment to participate in the communications session.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the characteristic comprises a geographic location of a source of the invitation.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the characteristic comprises a day of a week on which the invitation is received.

13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the characteristic comprises an identity of an intended recipient of the invitation.

14. A computer-readable storage device storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: receiving an invitation to participate in a communications session; selecting one of a first instance of operating system software and a second instance of operating system software, based on a characteristic detected by a device of the invitation, to yield a selected instance of operating system software; and loading, via a virtualization layer and in response to the invitation, the selected instance of operating system software as an active software environment to participate in the communications session.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 14 , wherein the characteristic comprises an identity of a sender of the invitation.

16. The computer-readable storage device of claim 14 , wherein the characteristic comprises a geographic location of a source of the invitation.

17. The computer-readable storage device of claim 14 , wherein the characteristic comprises a day of a week on which the invitation is received.